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Saturn Returning by Kim Narby

A smoldering, soul-splitting debut that tracks three friends through the celestial chaos of adulthood, love, and queer identity.

Jordan Caleb is a freshman at McCallen College when she meets Trace. From the moment the confident, tattooed Trace compliments Jordan’s Alanis Morissette T-shirt, their friendship feels fated and electrically charged. When the two friends meet mercurial transfer student Silvia, she catches Trace’s eye. Their instant attraction eclipses the nascent pull between Jordan and Trace, forming a messy constellation among the three women.

Over the course of a decade, their orbits send them to opposite coasts: Jordan builds a life in New York City, while Trace and Silvia get engaged in Seattle, yet the three remain linked by the gravitational pull of the past. As they approach thirty and the apogee of their Saturn return, their bond splinters when Trace calls Jordan with a shocking revelation, exposing a web of heartache, secrets, and unspoken desires.

Saturn Returning charts the complex paths of human connection and queer friendship, questioning how we define ourselves against the relationships that have shaped our lives.

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

“Smart, seething social horror…Rumfitt gives her worms the grotesque and triumphant glory they demand.” ―The New York Times Book Review

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless ― “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) ― comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence, and pleasure.

A Shirley Jackson Award finalist • A Best Book of 2023 (Reactor)

“Alison is like the twisted daughter of Clive Barker and Shirley Jackson.” ―Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author on Tell Me I'm Worthless

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya.

The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie’s feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya’s secrets threaten to tear them apart, Frankie starts digging, and unearths a sinister, depraved conspiracy, the roots of which go deeper than she ever imagined.

Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy, Brainwyrms confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism while exploring the depths of love, pain, and identity.

“[An] intimate, vulnerable triumph.” ―Library Journal, STARRED review

“Rumfitt’s talent for portraying the deplorable, disgusting, and grotesque shines throughout her masterful sophomore horror outing.” ―Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

Love Cake (2nd Edition) by Douglas Bell

A Novel of Queer Love, Identity, and the Cost of Choosing Between Family and Truth

You finally found them. The person. The life. The feeling you thought might never come. A life that feels like yours—fully, freely, without apology.

And just as you begin to settle into it… you realise how much it could cost to keep it.

Love Cake (2nd Edition), the powerful sequel to Cake Walk, is set in Houston during a time of global uncertainty—pandemic, social unrest, and deep cultural division. Against the backdrop of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, and rising right-wing political tensions in the United States, Bryan and Nadia—a transgender woman—build something rare: a queer bakery that becomes more than a business. It becomes a sanctuary—a place where people can feel seen, safe, and entirely themselves.

But even a sanctuary cannot shield you from the truth.

Bryan loves Nadia—not quietly, not conditionally—but in a way that asks to be lived openly. And still… he hesitates. Because love, for him, comes with risk—the risk of losing the people who have always defined his sense of belonging.

What would you do if loving someone meant risking the love of your child?

When Bryan’s daughter falls in love with a rising figure in American right-wing politics—someone whose values sit in direct tension with the life Bryan is trying to build—the question becomes unavoidable: what happens when the people you love believe in entirely different futures?

As her future grows uncertain, Bryan makes a choice he believes will protect her—one shaped by secrecy, compromise, and a betrayal he cannot undo. A choice that could cost him everything, including the life he has only just begun to claim.

He tells no one. Not even the woman he loves. And perhaps part of you understands why.

Because at some point, haven’t we all chosen silence to protect the life we’ve built?

Through meditation and quiet reflection, Bryan begins to confront what matters most: whether he can hold on to the woman he loves without losing the daughter who still needs him.

Love Cake is a deeply emotional novel about queer love, vulnerability, and the fragile space between who we are and who we allow ourselves to be. It asks what it means to live truthfully in a world still uneasy with difference—and whether love can survive if it is never fully seen.

For readers who understand the quiet, complicated work of children and stepparents trying to become a family—and the courage it takes to choose love anyway.

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